Gluten-free mandarin almond muffins
The muffins are made using almond meal and cornflower because many people are choosing to go gluten-free for lifestyle choices or they have celiac disease.
Mix all the liquids together first and lightly fold in the almond meal and cornflour. Muffins should never be over-mixed.
You can top yours with Malibu chocolate ganache and candied orange. To make the latter, she has cut extremely thin slices of citrus fruit, dipped these in caster sugar, placed them on an oven tray and baked them at 150 degrees Celsius for 20 to 25 minutes.
"The sugar caramelises around it. You want to get the slices as thin as you can otherwise they will leak too much juice."
Makes: 6
Ingredients:
- 5 eggs
- 250g caster sugar
- 250g ground almonds 250g
- 15g cornflour
- 5g baking powder
- 350g mandarins boiled and blitzed
For the Malibu chocolate ganache
- 500g dark chocolate
- 250ml cream
- 20ml Malibu (optional)
Method:
1. Place mandarins in a pot with water and cover with a lid and bring to the boil. Simmer for 1 to 1.5 hours until soft and cooked.
2. Allow to cool. Remove pith and blitz in a food processor.
3. Lightly whisk eggs with the sugar.
4. Sieve ground almonds, corn flour, and baking powder and add to the eggs.
5. Mix in with the blitzed mandarins and pour into prepared tins.
6. Bake at 160 degrees Celsius for 30 to 50 minutes, take out, cool on a baking rack, top with chocolate ganache and candied orange.
For the Malibu chocolate ganache
1. Chop chocolate into small pieces.
2. Pour cream into a heavy bottom pot and bring to a boil
3. Once the cream comes to a boil, put the chocolate into the cream and allow to sit for a minute.
4. Stir until chocolate is completely dissolved and the ganache is smooth.
5. Cool ganache completely before using.
Written by Virginia Winder. First appeared on Stuff.co.nz.
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